INTRODUCTION TO CAMERAS

What is a Camera? Device used to capture images. Modern day Cameras evolved from Camera obscure. It was first invented by Iraqi Scientist, Alhazen.

HOW CAMERAS WORK ?

* Works with visible spectrum or with other portions of Electro magnetic Waves Mechanics of camera

DIFFERENT TYPES OF CAMERAS

Camera phone Digital camera Game camera IP camera Movie camera Pinhole camera Pocket camera Rangefinder camera

Single-lens reflex camera Toy camera Traffic camera Trail camera Twin-lens reflex camera Waterproof digital camera Video camera View camera

DIFFERENT BRANDS OF CAMERAS

KODAK CANON

DIFFERENT BRANDS OF CAMERAS

NIKON
OLYMPUS

CAMERAS OBSCURA

* Uses a pinhole or a lens to project an image of the outside scene upside down onto a viewing surface It is a device dating back to Ancient Chinese and Greeks

EARLY FIXED IMAGES

The first partially successful photograph of a camera was made in 1817 by Nicephere Niepce He used a very small camera with a piece of paper coated with Silver Chloride It darkened where it was exposed to light The photograph was not permanent, eventually becoming entirely darkened by the overall exposure to light necessary for viewing it

DAGUERREOTYPES AND CALOTYPES

*These were the first methods by which images were fixed. Scene in the natural world could be transformed to metal or paper

DRYPLATES
* Collodion dryplate -1855 * Gelatin dryplate-1871 by Richard Leach Maddox that they rivalled wet plates in speed and quality * Cameras could be hand-held for the first time

Kodak and the birth of film

*The use of photographic film was pioneered by George Eastman Kodak is a very simple box camera with a fixed-focus lens and single shutter speed,

TLRs and SLRs

*The first practical reflex camera was the Franke & Heidecke Rolleiflex medium format TLR of 1928 In 1933 with the introduction of the Ihagee Exakta, a compact SLR which used 127 rollfilm was made

INSTANT CAMERAS
*The Polaroid Model 95, the world's first viable instant-picture camera *Model 95 used a patented chemical process to produce finished positive prints

AUTOMATION
*The first camera to feature automatic exposure was the selenium light meter-equipped, fully automatic Super Kodak Six20 of 1938

DIGITAL CAMERAS
*Digital cameras differ from their analog predecessors primarily in that they do not use film, but capture and save photographs on digital memory cards or internal storage instead *Digital cameras now include wireless communication capabilities (for example Wi-Fi or Bluetooth) to transfer, print or share photos, and are commonly found on mobile phones.

EARLY DEVELOPMENT
*The first recorded attempt at building a digital camera was in 1975 by Steven Sasson, an engineer at Eastman Kodak *The camera weighed 8 pounds (3.6 kg), recorded black and white images to a cassette tape, had a resolution of 0.01 megapixels (10,000 pixels), and took 23 seconds to capture its first image in December 1975.

ANALOG DIGITAL CAMERAS

*Images were recorded onto a mini disc and then put into a video reader that was connected to a television monitor or color printer. *It was a video camera that took video freeze-frames.

THE ARRIVAL OF TRUE DIGITAL CAMERAS

*The first true digital camera that recorded images as a computerized file was likely the Fuji DS-1P of 1988 *It recorded to a 16 MB internal memory card that used a battery to keep the data in memory

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